Usually, her underlings take care of these things

Heheh. Here’s Hillary trying to do something common folks do every day:

Let’s just hope and pray that if she were elected president, she’s wouldn’t be as clumsy with the nuke button as she was with that coffee maker …
Via Drudge.

Barack Obama to visit Charlotte again on Friday

… and guess what? Yours truly will be there. Just signed up for and received my very own e-ticket. I’m breathless with anticipation! He’s finally scheduled an event that won’t intrude on my workday.
Unfortunately I haven’t brushed up on my CPR training, so I’ll be no help to the fainting masses at [...]

Dumba** of the month award

In what has to be one of the most vicious, uncalled for columns I’ve ever read, the SF Chronicle’s Mark Morford goes off on First Lady Laura Bush, accusing her of being “the ideal Republican wife: Prim, sexless, nearly useless, lets the men do the real thinkin’.” He cites the opinion of a “conservative [...]

Wednesday open thread

Got a busy day ahead … will check in later when I can.

FactCheck smacks down false DNC ad accusations against McCain

Two ads – several big distortions. FactCheck has the ads, the context, and the correct facts and figures here.
I guess asking for a teensie weensie bit of honesty out of the Democratic party campaign season is asking too much.
In related Dem party news, Marc Ambinder blogged earlier today about the latest proposal by [...]

Obama goes off on Rev. Wright

Now this is more like it.
I’m busy this afternoon, but will have more commentary on this later.
Update – 7:17 PM: I just got done watching both his opening statement and the answers he gave earlier today to the press about Rev. Wright’s speech to the NPC yesterday. I don’t want to overanalyze it, [...]

Quote of the week

Via CBS News’ “From the Road” blog:
“This lady right here makes Rocky Balboa look like a pansy” said Governor Mike Easley, D-N.C., today, referring to Hillary Clinton.
I think the analogy is off a bit. For one thing, Rocky Balboa wouldn’t cheat to win, nor would he expect Adrian to stand in the ring [...]

Is Rev. Wright deliberately trying to hurt Obama’s campaign?

Newt Gingrich thinks so:
ABC News’ Nitya Venkataraman Reports: In a Tuesday appearance on Good Morning America, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., suggested that controversial pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright is angry with parishioner Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and may be deliberately trying to hurt his presidential bid.
Saying that Wright “went out of his way [...]

NC Gov. Easley to endorse La Clinton

The Raleigh N&O blog reports this evening that our Democrat governor will endorse Hillary Clinton for prez tomorrow:
Gov. Mike Easley is going to endorse U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, according to Tom Hendrickson, a former state Democratic party chairman who is a key Clinton supporter in North Carolina.
Easley agreed to the endorsement after returning [...]

Argh!

Many, many apologies for the continued off and on site access issues. My hosting service told me today that I am on their “big blogs’ server where a lot of their heavy traffic sites are, and it’s been under attack for the last few days on and off. They’re still looking into a [...]